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Podcast Episode – Sept. 24th: Meath Football Championship Drama
Pip: Welcome to Boylan Talks Sport — where the GAA weekend is never quite over until someone's pondered every last what-if from a parish that probably shares a post office. Mara: Brendan has been across a full slate of Meath SFC action this week — relegation drama, a quarter-final thriller, the defending champions flexing, and…
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 24th 2026
1.57: THE BESTY WOMAN (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.32: OF LAND AND SEA (DANNY MULLINS/PAUL HENNESSY) 3.07: MINO DES MOTTES – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.42 KILBRIN ROCCO – EW – (TOMMY O’CONNOR/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.17: CARRIG ISLAND – EW – (TOMMY O’CONNOR (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.52: JARRIVE DE MEE – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS)…
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SIDELINE CUTS – 49
Sleeping Giants Awakening? Even with the extensive coverage of the action in the Meath county football championships in this space in recent days, there was still more which could have been undertaken but I had neither the physical or emotional energy to take it on. For reasons which may well become obvious in due course.…
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 23rd 2026
1.55: LOVE ME TENDER (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.30: COLUMBUS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: ABORAH’S MAHLER – EW – (CAL HOGAN (5)/ERIC MCNAMARA) 3.40: HUMBLE BRAG – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH/DONIE HASSETT) 4.15: CONYERS HILL – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAUL NOLAN) 4.47: LA NOTRE VERT (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.22: NEW GRANGE (PADDY MULLINS/TOM COOPER)
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Champs flex muscles with ominous force
SUMMERHILL…0-30 ST COLMCILLE’S…1-16 At some stage in life, it’s probable we’ve all been told never to judge a book by its cover. The wise words were most certainly apt for deployment in relation to this final quarter final of the Fairyhouse Steel Meath SFC for 2026, played in St Loman’s Park, Trim on Sunday evening.…
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O’Brien lifts it and shifts Ratoath past the neighbours
RATOATH…2-18 DUNSHAUGHLIN/ROYAL GAELS…2-16 Ratoath businessman Gabriel O’Brien has what is perhaps the leading crane hire business in the country, which operates under the advertising slogan “Don’t lift it, let O’Brien shift it”. Now read on… Whether Bobby of the same surname is one of Gabriel’s gang or not I am not sure, but the experienced…
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 22nd 2026
1.47: LOUGHREA N ROLL (JOEY SHERIDAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.22: CISTERNA (SAM COEN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 2.57: ALISSAM – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/STEPHEN THORNE) 3.32: JAGGED EDGE (JACK KEARNEY/STEPHEN THORNE) 4.07: MARGOT MAE – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 4.41: GALILEO NOIRE – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.16: BAY OF STARS (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD)
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Moran
WOLFE TONES…1-12 RATHKENNY…0-13 If memory serves me correctly, Kyle Moran came on as a substitute in a Meath SFC knockout game a few years back and netted a crucial goal for Wolfe Tones as they progressed to a Meath SFC Final against Dunshaughlin/Royal Gaels. As it happened, before the corresponding phase of competition for the…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Sept. 21st 2026
3.50: EIGHTEEN SMILES (JOEY SHERIDAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.25: RIVER TRIEUX (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 4.57: MOYASSR – EW – (SAM COEN (5)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.27: BELLA COLOMBIA – EW – (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY) 5.57: MARCO POLO (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.27: PINK VENOM (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.57: NOUVEL ESPOIR – EW – (COLIN KEANE/JIMMY BARCOE)
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 21st 2026
1.23: DAWNMORE (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/JIM BOLGER) 1 53: STELLAR VIEW – EW – (CONOR CUSACK (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.23: KEOGIE (ADAM CAFFREY/NOEL MEADE) 2.55: AMPLITUDE – EW – (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 3.30: CANON LAW – EW – (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/BRENDAN W. DUKE) 4.05: DAY TRADER – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/TONY MARTIN) 4.40: THE AUSTRIAN (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE…
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